If paperless reporting not available, Court Heralds must use this form for all Kingdom and Baronial Courts. Give completed copies to at least the Abacus and Aten Principal Heralds.
Give additional copies Royals (Crown or Coronet) holding court, and keep a copy on file as the reporting herald.

You can test your knowledge of the populace's heraldry and how well you know your fellow SCAdians by playing this fun game.

Order of Precedence

Order of Precedence (OP) is a sequential hierarchy of rank. In the SCA, this takes the form of recognition of awards received, the rank of the award and when the person received it.

In formal events, the OP plays a part in how members are organized. For example: in Crown tournament, combatants and their consorts are presented to the crown before the tournament in their order of precedence.

In Atenveldt's OP, you don't need an award to be listed. Using photos and devices from many of our populace, it works as a who's who in Atenveldt. Feel free to explore.

Atenveldt's award charters are also kept in the Order of Precedence. An award charter is part of Kingdom Law that formally declares everything about the award.

Order of the Wa’a’s Oar

Barony of the Western Seas

Blazon:

Or, a wa'a outrigger sable, the sail charged with an oar Or, a bordure engrailed azure.

Award Charter

Order of the Wa’a’s Oar

Given by the reigning Baron or Baroness to a person who has enriched the Barony through their work, dedication, performance and/or service. In short, recipients are those who excel in helping to run the Barony. It takes many oars to move this Barony, thus one may spy many bearing the medallion. Without these people, there would be no Barony of Western Seas.

2 People with this Award

Persona Theft and False Awards and Honors.
I find myself compelled to use this space to speak to the membership about a fairly rare problem that has tripled in quantity and directly detracts from the inherent value of the entire system of Theatrical reenactment and recognition of excellence that flavor so much of the Society.

I refer here to the growing number of cases where we find someone either claiming to be possessed of the titles of a peer/noble/notable person - or outright stealing/borrowing the persona and titles of a person who labored long and hard for the honors and reputation being so casually nicked.

No sense of fame or positive regard is worth the ignominious and final demise that awaits the SCA career of anyone we catch doing this. And they are always caught.

I do not write of this problem and ask the membership to teach our new folk the value of earning honors as opposed to sneakily claiming them because I worry the perpetrators will get away with the caper. They will not.

I worry about the disheartening impact on the members and participants who work with good souls, a sound conscience, and can lose faith in what we are and seek to do when they encounter such crass thievery.

This growing problem will be stemmed by the swift and final treatment of those caught in the act of persona theft/false honors - that is my job and I am all over it. It will also be eased by teaching our new folk what the path to recognition is and encouraging them to walk upon it.

Vice President of Operations (Society Seneschal) - George Reed (Aaron faheud Swiftrunner of the Stone Keep)